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Re:On a Great Interview Question by tgma on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:50PM (#35559312)
> rather than by using robust canned implementations

And who is supposed to implement the robust canned implementation?

Re:On a Great Interview Question by bolanyo on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:09PM (#35561417)
Probably not a UWaterloo recent grad who is good at programming competitions and has just been hired onto a random product team at Google.
Re:On a Great Interview Question by tgma on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:57PM (#35561964)
I’d posit that a UWaterloo grad who landed a job at Google is close to maximally likely to end up working on something like that [acknowledging that in absolute terms relatively few college grads do so.]